Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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